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Chapter 2
Rigel laid on his bed in the room Teddy and he shared at the Tonks' house. Across from them laid Teddy, just a week ago, at Harry and Ginny's wedding, Harry had come up to them and told them neither would be going with them, both had argued and thrown a fit, but there had been no changing Harry's mind: To dangerous he had said. Neither Teddy nor Rigel has spoken to Harry since.
"I think we should go back to Hogwarts." Rigel had spoken up after a long moment of silence.
"You're joking right?" Teddy demanded. He turned his head to look over at his best friend to see him looking at him with his eyebrow raised. "You're not joking! Are you nuts?"
Rigel sat up and rolled his eyes, for the past few weeks, ever since Lucius Malfoy had become Minister of Magic and Bellatrix Lastranage had become headmistress of Hogwarts, things in the wizard world had become very dark, you couldn't even walk into the Leaky cauldron without being tortured by a bunch of Death Eaters and those who we just trying to fit in so they wouldn't be targeted. Never mind trying to get a peaceful shopping trip in Dagon Ally.
"Look, Morph, listen, I think we should." Rigel said. "Keep in eye on what the Death Eater teachers are doing or try to hear what Voldemort is up to, you know most those idiots that follow him can't keep their mouths closed once around each other, they want to see who knows more."
"So, you are saying, you want to go back to school to spy?" Teddy frowned. Rigel nodded.
"Think about it." He said. "We can help Uncle Sri and the order, we could find out stuff on Voldemort and his Death Eaters, and let them know what's going on."
"How?" Teddy demanded. "How will we let Padfoot and the others know, the are bound to be planning to keep an eye on all the mail so-"
Rigel smirked and reached over to the nightstand by his bed and picked up a hand-held silver mirror and held it up. Teddy rolled his eyes, knowing what it was, it was a two-way mirror Sirius had the other, when Rigel is at school he used it to talk to his uncle when he needed to.
"What if we are overheard or get caught?" Teddy demanded. "Do you realize what they would do to us."
"Yes," Rigel said, sitting the mirror back down. "But it's worth is isn't it? Look, we both want to do our part in helping to bring Voldemort down, which is the reason we wanted to go on the hunt with Harry, we can still help, but getting information for the order." Tedd sighed and ran a hand through his hair.
"Alright." Teddy gave in, making Rigel grin. "That is, if they even let us go." He nodded to the door, his way of motioning to the adults.
"Just leave them to me." Rigel said. "If anything we'll sneak out on September first. Agreed?" Teddy watched his good friend a moment, before sighing.
"Agreed." He said, lying back down. "But if I get killed I'm never speaking to you again." Rigel snorted and laid back down.
Over the next few days Rigel and Teddy kept mostly to their room planning and scheming, they couldn't afford to get caught spying on the Death Eaters and passing the information to the Order.
One day as they were taking a break from their planing and just lying on their beds chatting there was a knock on their door.
"What?" Rigel called, the door opened to revile Harry, followed by Ginny, Rigel frowned at them, but Teddy greeted his friends with a smile and a: "How's married life?"
Neither said anything, Harry looked behind him to make sure nobody had followed him and Ginny up the stairs, before they came into the room and shut the door, Harry then pulled out his wand and cast a silence charm. Then turned back to Rigel and Teddy.
"Why are you-"
"I need a favor from you two." Harry said, making Rigel and Teddy frown at him. "We found out who took the real locket, and where it is now-"
"Really?" Teddy asked, "Who?"
"My dad." Rigel said, making Teddy looked at him surprised and Harry and Ginny frown at him.
"Hang on?" Ginny said. "You know? For how long?"
"I've known ever since Harry first mentioned a R.A.B." Rigel said. "It stands for Regulus Arcturus Black, my dad had turned against Voldemort when he found out what he had done."
"Bloody Hell!" Teddy cursed. "And you didn't say anything."
"Why didn't you tell me?" Harry demanded. "All this time-"
"Look, you and Ginny were the ones who said you didn't need our help." Rigel said. "So, I figured you could find it out on your own."
Harry glared at him, Rigel glared back, and after a moment Harry's look soften a bit. "Look, maybe me and Ginny were a little out of line when we said we didn't need your help, I'm sorry, but we really do, just once need a favor from you two. We know where the Horcrux is and it's not going to be very easy to get it."
"How did you find out where is was?" Teddy asked.
"We questioned, Kreacher." Ginny answered, sitting next to Teddy on his bed.
"You what?" Rigel demanded.
"It was Ginny's idea." Harry said, sitting next to Rigel. "When we had went to Grimmuald Place, your Gryffindor banner was gone of your bedroom door, and the sign under it with your dad's name showed, we figured out he was R.A.B, so Ginny said question Kreacher, house-eleves usually know all their master's secrets."
"But who did you get him to answer?" Rigel said. "Neither one of you have Black blood in you."
"No, but Harry had his own way of dealing with him." Ginny said. When Teddy and Rigel looked back at Harry, he snapped his fangs at them, both rolled their eyes.
"Of course." Teddy mumbled. "So, where is the locket?"
"Kreacher said, Mundungus Fletcher took it." Harry said, anger flashed in Rigel's eyes.
"So, Harry and I hunted down ole' Fletcher and got him to talk." Ginny said. "He said a Ministry witch took all the stuff he was on the street sailing, including the locket."
"Who?" Rigel demanded.
"Umbridge." Harry said. "Looks like ole's Lucius let her out of Azkaban-"
"Since when was Umbridge in Azkaban?" Teddy asked. Harry rolled his eyes.
"Ever since she was fired from Hogwarts." Harry said. "Don't you keep up with anything?"
"That doesn't matter." Ginny said, stop some bickering that was sure to come. "Look, Lucius let just about every prison left in Azkaban free, including Umbridge, plus he gave her a job at the Minister, not the one she had before, that's already taken by another Death Eater, we don't know what her job is, but we know she took the locket."
"And you need our help to go into the Ministry to get it." Rigel finished, both nodded.
"Well..."
"What?" Teddy demanded.
"We were kind of hoping you two would be willing to go get it." Ginny said.
"Just us two?" Teddy demanded.
"Ginny and I can't use Polly juice Potion, we're no long fully Human." Harry explained. "And you'll have to look like you alike Ministry workers."
"How the bloody hell are we going to do that?" Teddy said.
"Ginny and I have worked out a plan." Harry said. "Look, we'll still go, we'll stay outside the Ministry under my cloak, and if you're not out at certain time, we'll come looking for you, okay?"
"If there was a way we could go in with you, we would." Ginny said.
"There is." Rigel said, "If and I mean if Teddy and I are willing to help you, then you two are coming in with us."
"Yeah." Teddy said, and from the look on his face you could tell he had no clue what Rigel meant. "We're not doing all the dirty work."
"How-"
"Transfiguration." Rigel said. "We can transfigured ourselves to look different, it's easier and we don't risk it earing off if we're in there too long."
"Besides." Teddy said. "Have you forgotten what I am." He crunched up his face and turned his hair shoulder length black, and when he opened his eyes they were a light grey, and his changed his nose and mouth to, he looked just like Rigel.
"Change your face back." Rigel demanded. "That's creepy." Teddy just laughed.
"But, what about looking like one of the workers?" Ginny said.
"I can use my muggle computer to make us Ministry IDs" Rigel waved his hand. "There are so many bloody people who work there, as long as we have ids no one will know different. Too many for everyone to know everyone."
"Yeah." Teddy nodded.
"Okay, then." Harry looked at Ginny and she gave a nod. "Looks like we'll be coming in with you."
Harry sent an owl to Daniel putting him in charge of the house for a few days, while Ginny and him stayed with Rigel and Teddy planing. They made it out like they wanted to spend some time with them and Harry's godfather. They took turned sneaking out under Harry's cloak to watch the Ministry and see how things worked under Lucius' rule. All workers no longer used to floo network, instead they had to used solid black telephone booths , along with a few others that had been sat up and run their IDs across the top to get it to go down and enter. When Harry voiced concerns about their ids not being able to do that, Rigel just waved his hand and said, he had it all under control.
Finally the day for them to go came: Harry and Ginny had waited for a cloudy and raining day, and they got one, that was also windy. They snuck out Teddy and Rigel's window: Harry picked up Rigel, and Ginny picked up Teddy and they used their vampire speed to carry them all the way to an ally behind the Ministry entrance. Teddy made a remark about never being carried by such a pretty lady before, making Ginny give him a punch, which left a pretty good size mark on his arm.
Rigel was the best out of them at Transfiguration, so he pulled his wand out and went to work, he changed Harry, to look like a tall old man, with long grey hair, and bread, with crystal blue eyes, and a short chubby nose, and a big mouth, then Ginny to have black hair and black eyes, with a bit of a long nose, and smaller cheek bones, and himself to have short blonde hair, and brown eyes, with a stubby nose. When he was done with them, you couldn't tell who they were.
Teddy closed his eyes and crunched up his face, and turned his hair a golden brown, with light green eyes, a funny looking crocked nose. Rigel had gotten a contact of his to send him four Ministry robes, so they could put them on and blend in.
Somehow Rigel was able to get their IDs to work, and all four of them was able to climb in a booth, slid their card and get it to take them down into the Ministry, when the doors slid open, they all stepped out and Ginny gasped: There in the middle of the Atrium where a fountain use to be was now a gigantic statue of back stone; the vast sculpture of a witch and wizard sitting on ornately carved thrones, looking down at the Ministry. Engraved in foot-high letters at the base of the stature were the words: Magic Is Might.
"It's horrible." Ginny said. "Do you see what they're sitting on." Harry looked closer, and realized that what he had thought were decoratively carved thrones was actually mounds of carved humans: hundreds and hundreds of naked bodies, men, women and children, all with rather stupid, ugly faces, twisted and pressed together to support the weight of handsomely robed wizards.
"Muggles." Rigel said. "In their rightful place."
"That's just sick." Teddy said.
"Come on, guys." Harry said. "Let's just go, before we're seen staring at this thing, like we're seeing it for the first time."
"We are seeing it for the first time." Teddy mumbled as they headed toward the long line of witches and wizards wanting to get into the lifts. Harry looked around and sniffed, so far no sight or smell of Umbridge. The luckily got a lift to themselves, and the moment the golden gates closed the lifts too them down.
"How the heck are we suppose to find Umbridge." Teddy asked. "The Ministry is huge, and she could be anywhere."
"The easiest way is to split up." Rigel said.
"No," Ginny said. "What if one of got into trouble or something, the others wouldn't know, besides how could we tell you if we find Umbridge?"
Rigel smirked, and dropped the big he brought with them on the floor of the lift, and dug through it until he pulled out four muggle cell phones, and handed one to each of them.
"With those." He said. Ginny rolled her eyes.
"It's still not a good idea to split up." She said.
"We're not splitting up." Harry said, when Rigel opened his mouth to argue. "But these will do good just incase." He put the phone Rigel handed him in his pocket and reached over and slipped his hand in Ginny's.
The lift went down two floors, before it stopped and the golden gates opened and Ginny gave a small gasped. Four people stood before them, two of them deep in conversation: The new Minister of Magic himself Lucius Malfoy, and the very one they were looking for Dolores Umbridge, they both stepped onto the lifts, the four friends held their breaths, but it seem Rigel had been right, there were so many workers in the Minister they didn't seem bothered to find four wizard they never seen before in the lifts.
"Like I was saying Minister, I need someone who can help me with record-keeping." She said. Lucius grabbed Ginny's arm, making Rigel and Teddy to have to hold Harry back.
"Here, use here, she doesn't look much useful for anything else." He shoved her toward Umbridge, the shoved her toward Umbrige, she looked Ginny up and down, then sighed.
"I guess you'll have to do." She said, writing something down on her clip board, the lifts opened again, Malfoy looked around, spotted Teddy and shoved him out. "Yaxey is complaining about his office raining, go fix it." he demanded, and before the gate closed he shoved Rigel and Harry out with him. "Go help, make yourselves useful. Before either even realized what had happened the gates closed and the lifts went down taking Ginny with them.
"Fuck!" Harry cried, and went to press the lift button, but Rigel stopped. "What the bloody hell did you do that for? They have Ginny."
"We need to find another lift, so this one won't bring them back up." Rigel said.
"That's what I want it to do." Harry said. Rigel rolled his eyes, and grabbed Harry's arm and dragged him down the corridor.
"They'll get suspicious." he said. "And we might get thrown out if the so-called Minister fires us."
"So." Harry said. "That happened to be my wife they have."
"I know who it is, Harry, you don't have to remind me." Rigel said. "And did you forgot what she is. I'm sure she can handle those two if she needs to."
"Guys look." Teddy pointed to a door ahead of them, on it in Gold Letters where the words" The Muggle-Born Registration commission."
"What the bloody hell is that?" Rigel demanded. "What are they doing, hunting down muggle-borns now?"
"Who knows?" Harry said. "We need to find a lift so we can get Ginny."
"Look whose name is on the door." Rigel said. "Umbirdge, so that's her new job."
"Let's see if the locket is in there." Teddy said.
"Why would she just keep it in her office?" Harry demanded. "The only way of knowing where it is, would be to get her to talk, now come on guys, we have to find Ginny."
"It wouldn't hurt to look just in case." Rigel said. And he and Teddy walked up to the door, and Rigel reached out to turn the knob, and it was surprisingly unlocked. Rigel opened the door and walked in, Teddy following him after looking around to make sure no one was around. Harry followed next grumbling the whole time.
As Harry stood complaining and urging them to come on so they could find Ginny. Rigel and Teddy searched Umbridge's whole office top to bottom. Looking in the desk, looking into cabinets and files.
"They're following, the Weasleys around." Teddy said. After opening a file and looking through it. Harry looked up and frowned at him.
"What?"
"Yeah, along with a lot more families." Teddy said. Putting the file back. "Mostly people in the order, or their families, got their whole life history in these files. Everything from their blood statues to their jobs, and family members."
"That's...that's...crazy." Harry stumbled.
"It's listed in the Potter family that your brothers are missing." Teddy said. Harry just nodded.
"Yeah, they're at my house, being kept safe by a clan of vampires, along with Hermione." Harry said. "Now can we go?"
"They's looking for Hermione." Rigel told him. "So, she could be questioned, her and a lot of other muggle-borns, they never turned themselves in."
Teddy snorted. "Of course they didn't. Who would be that stupid?"
"Okay, you've checked her office, you see it's not here." Harry said. "Now can we go get my wife?"
"Come on, Morph, before Lightning had a hissy fit." Rigel smirked, closing the cabinet door, he was looking through.
"You would too, if it was your wife." Harry said, opening the door just a little to peep out to make sure it was clear.
"I wouldn't have to worry about my wife being taken." Rigel said. Harry looked back and glared at him. "Because I'm never getting married." Harry rolled his eyes and nodded for them to come on.
Thankfully they were never caught coming out of Umbridge's office. They also had no trouble getting to a lift and having it take them down to the button floor, but the moment they stepped out, Rigel and Teddy started shivering, like it was suddenly cold.
"What's wrong with you two?" Harry demanded. Then he saw them up ahead, dementors. They didn't affect Harry since he became one a vampire, which was a good thing, it meant they didn't affect Ginny when she was brought down here. "Wait here guys." Harry whispered, then Harry took off running toward the dementors, and as he got to them he brought his claws out and sliced at every one of them. When he was done all that was left were a pile of cloaks on the floor, he then looked back at his two friends.
"Come on guys, this way." He took off down the corridor with Rigel and Teddy following behind him. When they made it to the end of the corridor, they could hear Umbridge's voice, coming from a room, with the door a Jared.
"Take him away." She said.
Harry turned to his friends and put his finger to his mouth to tell them to stay quiet and peeped into the room in time to see a wizard being led away, through another door.
"Next-Mary Cattermole," called Umbirdge, Harry could see Ginny sitting next to her glaring, with her fangs starting to come out. He hoped she didn't lose it...not yet anyway.
A small woman walk over and take the seat the wizard had just been sitting in.
"You are Mary Elizabeth Cattermole?" Umbridge demanded. The women gave a shaky nod, looking frightened.
"Married to Reginald Cattermole of the Magical Maintenance?" Again she nodded, then burst into tears. "Mother of Maisie, Ellie, and Alfred Cattermole."
As Umbridge went on questioning the Muggle-born witch, Harry looked around trying to think of some way to get to Ginny, and maybe even a hold of the locket, he could see it hanging around Umbridge's neck. Then he just gave up trying to come up with a plan, there weren't that many workers in the room watching, he Rigel, Teddy and Ginny could take them out, so, he pulled out his wand and motioned for Rigel and Teddy to do the same, then did
"Come on, guys, we're just going to burst in there and start throwing hexes. Only way, I know to get to Ginny and the locket, I can see it around Umbridge's neck." Harry said.
Teddy and Rigel smiled. "Wicked."
Harry turned back to the door, then gave a nod, and threw it open further and ran into the room, it was immediate chaos, wizards pulled out their wands and started throwing spells, and hexes, Teddy, Rigel and Harry ducked and blocked them all, and threw them back. Hitting everyone they aimed at.
"STOP THEM!" Umbridge stood up and yelled. She pulled out her wand and fired a jinx at Harry, it hit him, but all it did was make him yelp, and she suddenly heard a growling next to her, she looked to see Ginny in vampire mode, her face snuck in, fangs showing, and clawed hands raised. Umbrige's eyes widened and she stumbled back, pointing her wand at Ginny, but didn't have time to even think of a spell.
Ginny jumped up and came at Umbridge was her hand drawn, she brought her claws down and raked them across her throat. Umbridge's eyes widened as she choked a little, then her eyes rolled back and her body dropped to the floor dead. Ginny bent down and ripped the locket from around her neck, then jumped up and over the desk and onto the ground.
"Come on I got it lets' get out of here." Ginny cried, Rigel, Harry, and Teddy didn't even complian, they turned and followed her out the door, alarms started going off as they ran to the lifts, but they all began to close up and lock themselves to keep them trap, one of the workers who hadn't been knocked out or killed must off set of some alarm.
They were finally able to get on a lift right before the doors closed, then it went up. It seemed like it took forever to get to the last floor, and the gates slid open, and they ran out, wizards and witches tried to stop them as they ran toward the booths to leave, they had to throw spells, and Harry and Ginny, and to claw some, as they made it, they all got on a booth, but before they slid closed, Teddy threw a spell at the black stone statue and blew it up, they slid there ids in and the booths took them up.
When they made it outside Harry and Ginny were glad to see it was still raining, and cloudy, they left the booths and ran back to the ally behind the Ministry.
"Why to go, Ted." Rigel praised, when they caught their breath, he patted him on the back. "That statue needed blown up."
Teddy only smiled. "So, what are we going to do with the locket?"
"Let me see it, Gin Gin." Harry said. Ginny handed it over to him. He looked it over, then reached to his mouth brought out his fangs and dropped some vampire venom on it.
At first nothing, then it began to shake in his hand, Harry dropped it, and they all stepped back, as it shined bright, and the sound of a scream was heard, then nothing, the light left, and the locket stopped shaken.
"Well, do you think it worked?" Teddy demanded.
Harry got down next to it. The locket was pretty badly damaged and smoking. He nudged it with a finger, it was hot, but he did not feel the life he had felt inside it a moment ago. he looked up at his friends and wife and gave a grin.
"One down, three to go." He said.
A.N. I'm ending the chapter here, hope you liked it, sorry it too so long to get up, hopefully the next won't take as long.